The ‘Handbook for Creating a Gender-Sensitive Curriculum: Teaching and Learning Strategies’ is a compendium of examples and case studies of effective gender-sensitive practice in higher education. It contains a practical guide for teachers and trainers across a range of contexts that illustrate how others have successfully...

On the 30th of March 2022, the GEARING-Roles annual conference on gender equality in research and higher education took place in Tartu, Estonia. We welcomed consortium partners and attendees online and – finally – in person at Tartu’s V Spa Hotel and Conference Centre. Tartu is...

Careers for Girls When young girls are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they choose careers or jobs they have seen or heard of, like teachers, doctors, vets, hairdressers, singers, or bakers. But scientists, engineers, and mathematicians tend to work in places...

Online, 14 June 2022 at 10.00-11.30 cet  Registration link: https://forms.gle/vHgVCBRzNj1Rg5kr8 Organised as part of the EU-funded GEARING ROLES project (H2020), this roundtable aims at presenting the experiences of the creation of high-level positions in institutions across Europe. Speakers from these institutions will share their journey, after which there will be an...

"Backlash and resistance to gender equality take common forms including: denial of the problem, disavowal of responsibility, inaction, appeasement, co-option and repression. Resistance may be individual or collective, formal or informal."  - Flood, M., Dragiewicz, M., & Pease, B. (2020). Resistance and backlash to gender...